Part IV.

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will grant (by the Lord’s permifiion) thy delires. Therefore feek for that which is good ; avoid all evil either in thought, word, or aCtion ; pray to God to fill thee with wifdom, and then thou fhalt reap an abundant harveft. There are two ways magically fet before thee ; chufe which thou wilt, thou fhalt be fure of thy reward. Fareweh
London , 1800.
F. B.
Of the making of the Crystal and the Form of Preparation for a
Vision.
PROCURE of a lapidary a good clear pellucid cryftal, of the bignefs of a fmall orange, u e. about one inch and a half in diameter ; let it be glo- bular or round each way alike ; then, when you have got this cryftal, fair and clear, without any clouds or fpecks, get a fmall plate of pure gold to encom- pafs the cryftal round one half > let this be fitted on an ivory or ebony pedeftal, as you may fee more fully defcribed in the drawing, (fee the Plate, fig. 1 .) Let there be engraved a circle (A) round the cryftal with thefe characters around
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name 4* Letragrammaton” . On the other fide of the plate let there be engra- ven “ Michael, Gabriel , Uriel, Raphael which are the four principal angels ruling over the Sun, Moon , Venus and Mercury ; but on the table on which the cryftal ftands the following names, characters, &c. muft be drawn in order.
Firft, The names of the feven planets and angels ruling them, with their feals or characters. The names of the four kings of the four corners of the earth. Let them be all written within a double circle, with a triangle on a table j on which place the cryftal on its pedeftal : this being done,
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